Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Hi Eve

Here are two koalas for you to look at

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She loved this picture. Thank you.

 

[BY Bob]

And a platypus
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This was a hit with Eve's Mum.

 

[BY Bob]

I'll be making nest boxes when I get the time and I'm going to make two wide boxes so that each box will comfortably sit three hens. I think they like a chat while laying.

It will seem like a good idea until you have seen the pecking order enforced while in the nesting box. I used to have a slanted panel between my boxes until I saw Aurora pecking at Sydney while they were both laying eggs. Then I walled it off to stop that.

Of course mine are the nastiest hens here so you may not have that problem.

 

[BY Bob]

SHRA!

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That is a lovely photo.

 

[BY Bob]

I've been working lately near to the Coop when a hen has been in there. Like shoveling snow, or today replacing the batteries on the automatic door. They hear me nearby and I hear a trilly kind of clucking coming from in there. It increases when I'm closer. Sometimes I hear that when I'm in the run with the others, it is loud enough. I don't know if she's talking to me, the other hens, or what she's saying. It is a distinctive sound though.

Yes, and there have been two hens in there at least twice that I know of. It is a long 34"? x 12"? hall-shaped box made by a divider with a sliding door opening between it and the roosting area. The coop is an Omlet Cube. I can't add another nestbox to it exactly, except outside of the coop, like I could hang it from the protective welded wire run, and make a ramp to it. But I'm not sure they would use it. I might try.

My nest box in the run has gotten no use at all since I built it. They would still rather fight over the original 2 boxes.

 

[BY Bob]

I think she is my favorite of your girls. She is just so adorable.

She is a real sweetheart. She has quite the personality. She has figured out how get her share despite being last in the pecking order. She is impressive.

 

[BY Bob]

Be careful dear, "Peeps" are very addictive. Once you start, you can't un-start!

I have destroyed many an Easter basket full of peeps! They are yummy!

Oh wait. You were talking about these, weren't you? Sorry about that.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I did not notice that.

@BY Bob paid the chicken tax inside the non-chicken post, didn't he!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

That’s how they get you... a creature so unbelievably odd that you’re distracted enough for the drop bears to get you!

Don't tell Eve!

 

[BY Bob]

We all are and so we get to share more chicken pictures!

Exactly!